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Ira A. Fulton School
of Engineering

Herberger College
of Fine Arts

K. Selcuk Candan
Associate Director

K. Selcuk Candan is an associate professor at the School of Computing and Informatics (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) at Arizona State University. He joined the department in August 1997, after receiving his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland at College Park. Currently, he is serving as an associate director for the Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) program at ASU and as a founding member for the Center for the Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing. Since 1997, he has also been serving as a visiting research scientist at the NEC Laboratories, America.

Prof. Candan's primary research interest is in the area of management of non-traditional, heterogeneous, and imprecise (such as multimedia, web, and scientific) data. His various research projects in this domain are funded by a diverse set of sources, including the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and DES/RSA (Rehabilitation Services Administration). He has published over 100 articles and many book chapters. He has also authored 9 patents. Currently, he is co-authoring a book on multimedia databases for the Cambridge University Press.

Prof. Candan is an editorial board member of one of the most respected database journals, the Very Large Databases (VLDB) journal. He is also in the editorial board of the ACM Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC) and a steering committee member for the ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) workshop. He has also served in the organization and program committees of various conferences. In 2006, he served as an organization committee member for SIGMOD'06, the flagship database conference of the ACM and one of the best conferences in the area of management of data. In 2008, he will serve as a PC Chair for another leading, flagship conference of the ACM, this time focusing on multimedia research (SIGMM'08). He is also a founding organizing committee member of the First International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-sys'08), a new conference focusing on the challenges associated with ubiquitous multimedia.